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  "id": "1994-march-akron-completes-yearlong-car-series",
  "slug": "1994-march-akron-completes-yearlong-car-series",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1994-march-akron-completes-yearlong-car-series.html",
  "year": 1994,
  "month": "March",
  "monthNum": 3,
  "headline": "Akron completes yearlong CAR series",
  "kicker": "Bits, Bytes & Barks",
  "author_name": "Matt Reavy",
  "author_title": "Graduate Research Assistant",
  "affiliation": "Akron Beacon Journal",
  "summary": "The Akron Beacon Journal completed a year-long investigation examining racial disparities across multiple dimensions including crime, race relations, living conditions, health, education, and economic progress, utilizing computer analysis of census data and various government databases.",
  "keywords": [
    "investigation",
    "race",
    "data"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Demographics & Census",
    "Crime & Justice"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "The Akron Beacon Journal recently wound up its year-long analysis of blacks and whites in the 90s with a four-part series about crime and punishment.\n\nOther series during the course of the investigation dealt with race relations, living conditions, health and education, and economic progress.\n\nBob Paynter, assistant metro editor-projects, indicated that the staff used computers to examine census data, efficiency test scores, police reports, and a variety of county and school district databases.\n\nReprints of the story are available from the Beacon Journal",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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